Patents by Inventor Simon Auty

Simon Auty has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Video signal filtering with temporally spaced samples in time past
    Patent number: 5694177
    Abstract: A group delay of a noise-reducing median filter for video or a video FIR filter is reduced by transferring filter contributions of fields in "time forward" to fields in "time past" with respect to an output sample point. No significant impairment is introduced by this time asymmetry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1997
    Assignee: Snell & Wilcox Limited
    Inventors: Barry Flannaghan, Simon Auty, Martin Weston